Cuff-button.



-1"ATENTED OCT. 18,-1904. E. P. H. .GAYE.

CUFF BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 17, 1903. 4

l/VVEN TOR vv/r/vezss E6 J ToHNE/S UNITED STATES Patented October 18, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD FRANCIS HOWARD GA YE, OF DUNEDIN, NEVY ZEALAND.

CUFF-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,413, dated October 18, 1904.

Application filed November 17, 1903. Serial No. 181,524. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD FRANoIs How- ARD GAYE, gentleman, of Dunedin, New Zealand, have invented a certain new and Improved Cuff-Button, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cuff-buttons used for fastening the cuffs or sleeves together by insertion through the buttonholes in the cuffs. Its object is to provide a cuff-button that may be readily inserted by one hand through the buttonholes and on being released will move into a position buttoning the cuffs. This object is effected by securing two buttons piv-.

otally at the ends of a connecting-link, so that the buttons may lie substantially in one plane with the link for the purpose of being thrust through the buttonholes, and so that on being released the buttons may turn and engage the outside surfaces of the ends of the cuffs to hold them together. Gross-bars may be placed on the link, one below the inner end of each button, to prevent the buttons turning completely round and in order to give a greater rigidity to the device for the purpose of facilitating its being held and thrust through the buttonholes.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, the same numerals indicate the same or'similar parts.

Figure 1 is a plan View'of the cuff-button, showing it ready to be thrust through the buttonholes of a cuff. Fig. 2 is an edge view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a general View showing the cufi-button in position buttoning a shirt-.

cuff.

In the drawings two buttons 1 and 2 are pivotally secured to a link 3 by pivots 4c 5 on the link engaging in sockets on the buttons, so that the buttons 1 2 may, when required, lie in substantially the same plane with the link 3. The buttons 1 2 are prevented from moving on their pivots in one direction by the cross-bars 6 7 on the link 3. The cuff-button is held as illustrated in Fig. 1 and threaded first through one buttonhole, 8, and then through the other buttonhole, 9, and manipulated so that the buttons 1 2 turn and engage the outer surfaces of the ends 10 11 of the cuff.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.

1. A cuff-button consisting of a link composed of two parts, two buttons pivotally connected to each end thereof, and cross-bars on the parts of said link for limiting the movement of the buttons.

2. A cuff-button consisting of a link composed of two parts, a series of cross-bars connecting the parts together, and two buttons pivoted on the outer bars, the inner bars se'rving as stops for the buttons.

.In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD FRANCIS HOWARD GAY-E. Witnesses:

A. C. PARK, J. R. PARK. 

